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Jessica Fain predicts that as AI dramatically reduces the complexity of execution, the primary leverage for product managers will shift from synthesis and project management to strategic decision-making and gaining buy-in.
Perplexity, DBT, and BuzzFeed are customers of Omni's analytics product.
Tamar Yehoshua, a former CPO at Slack, is currently the CPO and Head of AI at Atlassian.
Annie Pearl, formerly CPO at Calendly and Glassdoor, is now working at Microsoft.
Elon Frank, a former product leader at Slack, is currently the Chief Product Officer at Checkr.
Product managers at Webflow are expected to use a custom GPT model, trained on past review transcripts, to anticipate feedback from leadership on their proposals.
At Slack, a process called "Hey, Stuart, what do you think?" was implemented by Allie Rail to get early feedback from CEO Stewart Butterfield before designs were finalized.
After design reviews with CEO Stewart Butterfield at Slack, the product team's process was to present his suggested design along with two other alternative versions for discussion.
At one point, Slack's executive team felt the company had lost its focus on product craft and user experience excellence.
To address concerns about declining product craft, Slack's core product team implemented a "customer love sprint," a two-week period where engineers could work on any user-facing improvement they chose.
Webflow's recently updated product manager career ladder identifies "product citizenship" — contributing back to the organization through mentoring and sharing best practices — as a key trait for seniority.
Jessica Fain believes that current AI systems are not yet capable of the anthropological, user-empathy-driven work that leads to novel product insights.